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The goal of the PortalMX ROI calculator is to determine if subscribing to the PortalMX platform is cost efficient for your company. In the next few pages we will give you the option to be as detailed as you want to define your specific environment driven parameters which have a direct impact on the cost of fulfilling your company eCom orders.
If you are only interested to get a quick idea about the potential savings that subscribing to PortalMX may generate, simply fill out the five info fields below and press the "Get Results" button.
If you are curious to know more about how we make our calculations/estimations and you are willing to provide the calculator more detailed information about your environment, click the "Show Me More Info" button after you had a chance to review the first results.
**The results shown on the previous page were based on time estimations we have entered for typical tasks to be performed when fulfilling eCom orders. Should you rather enter your own time estimations for these tasks and, see what impact it has on the potential savings that PortalMX can generate in your environment, please fill in the fields below with your own time estimations. Please note that the column Cost in the table below are automatically calculated based on the wage and work time you have provided on the first page of the ROI calculator. Should you want to change this information please go back to the first page
| Without PortalMX | With PortalMX | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who & Where | Using What system | Tasks | Time Taken (per order in min) | Cost | Time Taken (per order in min) | Cost |
| Consumer @ Home | Retailer Website | Order a new product from the Retailer's eCom website |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.00 |
| Retailer's Cust. Serv. Agent | Retailer Website | Acknowledge order |
|
$0.00 | 1 | $0.00 |
| Retailer Website | Get order details (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| Send order acknowledgement email to customer (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.25 | ||
| ERP / RMS / WMS | Look up Inventory at the various warehouses/stores (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| ERP / RMS / WMS | Allocate the order (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.25 | |
| ERP / RMS / WMS | Send a Pick Ticket request (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.25 | |
| Fulfillment Agent | ERP / RMS / WMS | Check to see open orders that are to be fulfilled by you |
|
$0.00 | 2 | $0.25 |
| ERP / RMS / WMS | Lookup inventory to confirm availability (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $1.25 | |
| ERP / RMS / WMS | Pick and Pack the order & Declare Order Ready to Ship |
|
$0.00 | 10 | $0.00 | |
| Send confirmation to RSR that Item is "Ready" to be shipped (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.25 | ||
| Retailer's Cust. Serv. Agent | EFT | Process the payment of Customer and check the details (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.00 |
| Send out confirmation to Warehouse to ship the order (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.25 | ||
| Fulfillment Agent | Carrier | Connect to your carrier website, Generate the Shipping label (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.00 |
| Carrier | Put the shipping label on the box |
|
$0.00 | 0.5 | $0.50 | |
| ERP / RMS / WMS | Update the Warehouse Inventory (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| Carrier | Ship the order |
|
$0.00 | 2 | $0.00 | |
| Send the shipment confirmation email to Customer representative (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.25 | ||
| Retailer's Cust. Serv. Agent | Send the shipment confirmation email to the customer (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.25 | |
| Carrier | Track the delivery status (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.25 | |
| eCom | Update the retailer's website order status to delivered when parcel has been delivered (1) |
|
$0.00 | 0 | $0.25 | |
Note: (1) Indicates a task automatically performed by the PortalMX platform
If you are curious and interested to know more about other factors that can influence your total investment in the PortalMX platform, we're giving you, in the section below, some more information and options to further define your needs and wants and refine the way you can more accurately estimate the true potential costs and savings that the use of PortalMX within your organization will generate.
Besides, the labor costs, we have evaluated in the previous pages, you need to consider all the extra one-time expenses due to any customization and/or any additional PortalMX user licences you would require. Below is what you may want to take into account.
PortalMX is a Saas (Software as a Service) platform which has been carefully designed to connect various retail system platforms together (Inventory management systems, Point of Sales system, eCom systems, Warehouse Management systems, etc..) and perform automatically, many if not all, of the typical fulfillment processes that take place in retail organizations whenever fulfilling orders in a multi-channel environment.
Even though, we feel very comfortable that PortalMX does account for many of the typical fulfillment tasks usually performed in most retail organizations, we cannot guarantee that your specific retail environment will not dictate the use of one or more specific systems that PortalMX does not natively connect to, and/or perform one or more specific tasks that are necessary in your environment.
In these instances, we work with you to make a gap analysis between what PortalMX delivers natively and what needs to be added and/or customized. In the table below, we give you the option to factor in any one time expense that you would need to make in order to customize PortalMX so that it meets your company's needs. As an example, you might use a specific software platform (say a Warehouse Management System (WMS)) that PortalMX does not connect to as of yet. If we both decide that the development of a new connector to connect your WMS to PortalMX is necessary, you will incur a one-time fee for the development of that connector. On average, based on our experience, retailers subscribing to PortalMX spend between $5,000 and $50,000 to have PortalMX perfectly matching their needs. By entering any amount into the "One time development cost of PMX custom connectors" field below, you make sure that the PortalMX ROI calculator does take into account all such customization costs.
One time development cost of PMX custom connectors
The platform monthly cost: This platform monthly cost is mainly dictated by the average number of orders you company does fulfill in a month. On average, if your company does process up to 500 orders per month (17 orders per day) we suggest you to subscribe to our basic PortalMX platform. If you exceed that number of orders per month, we suggest you to subscribe to our Premium platform. Currently, our monthly PortalMX subscription price for the Basic and Premium platforms are respectively, $600 and $1,200. The PortalMX calculator already calculates and factors in automatically that monthly subscription cost based on the average number of orders to fulfill per month, you have entered in the previous pages. Currently, you have entered that the average number of orders your organization needs to fulfill per month is . You may leave that estimation as is or change it by modifying it in the field below:
Enter the average number or orders to fulfill per month:
Based on your number of orders to fulfill per month, you will need to subscribe to our Basic platform at a monthly cost of Basic which includes
The connector monthly cost. A connector is a PortalMX (PMX) module allowing a certain type of data to be exchanged between PMX and another platform. As an example, Web Orders from a shopping cart can be extracted, stored and manipulated in the PortalMX database thanks to a connector. The same orders can be passed from PortalMX to a Retail Management System thanks to another connector. As a rule of thumb, you will need at least as many connectors as you have data flows between PortalMX and the systems it communicates with. While each version of the PortalMX platform (Basic and Premium) includes a default number of connectors, based on your needs you might need to require extra connectors for your own environment. In the table below, you have the option to enter in the "Addt'l PMX Connector requested" field, any additional number of connectors that you/we deem necessary to fit your company's needs. Each additional connector is charged $35 per month.
The PortalMX monthly licence cost:
| Without PortalMX | With PortalMX | |
|---|---|---|
| Total number of necessary staff to fullfill orders per month | 0 | 0 |
| Your Gross Order Fulfilment Monthly Labor Cost is | 0 | 0 |
| Additional resources required (optional) | Connectors | ShipMX Lic. | AdminMX Lic. |
| Your will have a total of | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Platform Type | Platform | Addt'l PMX Connector requested | Addt'l PMX ShipMX requested | Addt'l PMX AdminMX requested | Total Monthly PMX Cost $ |
| Without PortalMX | With PortalMX | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time Analysis | Total processing time (in min) to process one order | 0 | 0 |
| Total processing time (in min) for all the orders per day | 0 | 0 | |
| Total processing time (in hrs) for all the orders per day | 0 | 0 | |
| HR Analysis | No. of Employees required | ||
| Fullfillment Cost Analysis | Labour cost per order | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Total labour cost for all the orders per day | $0.00 | $0.00 | |
| Cost Analysis | PMX recurring processing cost per month | $0.00 | |
| PMX recurring gross labor cost savings per month | $0.00 | ||
| One time development cost of PMX custom connectors | $25,000.00 | ||
| Months to recover One-Time + processing costs | 0.00 | ||
| Estimated cumulated savings at the end of Year 1 | |||
| Estimated P&L at end of Year 1 | |||
| Next years projection | With PortalMX |
|---|---|
| Current year rounded up # of orders per day | |
| Current year # of orders per year | |
| Estimated annual increase in orders for Year+1 (%) | |
| Projected new number of orders for Year+1 | |
| Gross labor savings per order | |
| Estimated gross labor savings for the year | |
| Estimated PMX subscription cost for the year | |
| Projected cumulated Year+1 savings | |
| Projected cumulated Current Year + Year+1 savings | |
| Projected running P&L at the end of Year+1 |
As you can see on the chart above, with the Basic PortalMX Platform, once your eCom channel generates more than orders to fulfill per month, you start saving money. If you choose the Premium PortalMX Platform, you will start saving money from orders fulfilled per month.